Problems with Capture One Live so far...
1. Sort option is too limited and no reverse.
I have no idea why reverse sort option is not available and how come sort option is limited?
2. Need to keep loading files in order to see all images!
This is stupid. What if I have hundred or thousand images to go over? I have to keep clicking "load more files" in order to load images until Live load every single files. This is very time consuming and meaningless action during the session.
3. Only one folder per Live.
I can say most photographer put multiple folders WITHIN Sessions' Capture folder but Capture One Live allows only one specific folder at a time! It already defeats the purpose of using multiple folders and it is very inconvenient. Many photographers I worked with complained about this issue.
4. Live session's organization and updating
It's very difficult to organize and update live sessions. I have no idea why but it keep showing me to re-start the session whenever I change the session. Why cant it do automatically? Sometime, it disconnect the live session so I have to go back to C1P and then re-start the live session! This is quite annoying especially if you have multiple live sessions to control.
5. Limited collaboration options.
They added comments later one but how am I suppose to find images with comment? No annotation? No keywords?
6. Live session link does not always work.
Some people complained that Live sessions does not work that they had to use other computer or browser on their laptop or desktop. I already complained about this issue but so far, no responds.
Any other issues and suggestions?
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My only issue so far has been with the limit of free sessions, and lack of any middle ground options for use.
Five free sessions is perfectly fair, I really can't complain about getting something for free. But as a photographer that doesn't really do tons of work where the live would change much, I don't want to pay $10 a month for something that I may use just a few times a year. If there was a middle option to the payment plan I would absolutely use it. As is though, I can't justify an extra $120 a year when I can just send out a contact sheet or do a screen share like I always have for the few gigs I do that client feedback is needed.
I love the feature, and it's worked great so far in the trial, but I'd prefer a payment option that's not all or nothing. I don't have enough uses for it to justify the "all", but I'd still like to use it some.0 -
We have a number of complaints about Live sessions. Here's our top killer: Photos stop sending
On most larger shoots C1 just stops sending photos at some point (for context: we use Live so photo subject can choose their photo on iPad. They are often big days with, say 100+ participants... think a Duke University faculty headshot day). It is rare when it *doesn't* happen.
We do a LOT of Live sessions, so we know what can happen... and it's not just that the Live session isn't turned on, the cable loose, or whatever.
The only fix, which I hope might point someone to the cause, is that you *can* get it working temporarily by doing this:
- Take someone's photo in C1
- Quit C1 and restart it
- restart the Live session
- the % reloaded goes up and when it's at 100% the photos of THAT last session only will send to iPad.
Then after 15-20 minutes without anyone coming for a photo, the session will often kick back on and work again. It feels like after maybe 800 images the server gets finicky (we only are sending Jpegs, not RAW, so not too huge).
We've tried having a second C1 Session cued up to use, and that's hit or miss. On our big gig today, that session just repeatedly crashed in C1 so we gave up and went back to the failing large original session.
What we have yet to try:
- could it be some sort of a cache issue? can with pitch cache contents from the C1 session folder or clear the cache somehow in the app?
- could it be a file size issue that the servers reach a limit and sending slightly smaller jpegs would work
- could it be a time issue that shooting for 3 hours, say, just gets a disconnect from C1's servers
Another idea is that maybe when a session restarts it isn't properly aware of what's already on the server and is resending *everything*... clogging the whole thing up.
*** UPDATE ****
We just did a test here at the office (not on a live shoot, so who knows), but trashing the set of images in
Capture One/Cache/Proxies
didn't make C1 crash, and it DID seem to allow photos to start flowing again via Live to our iPads.
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3. Only one folder per Live.
I can say most photographers put multiple folders WITHIN Sessions' Capture folder but Capture One Live allows only one specific folder at a time! It already defeats the purpose of using multiple folders and it is very inconvenient. Many photographers I worked with complained about this issue.
This is absolutely terrible, you have to constantly send new links. For a program that is for pro's, you would expect more.
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